“We’d checked David Suchet out for various parts before – but this part was the one for him.”

Answering the burning questions posed by DWM readers – the man in charge of Doctor Who!

Ask STEVEN MOFFAT

FRANK SKINNER asks: I really love your column in DWM – will you please continue to write it even after you’ve left as showrunner?

■ Oh, Frank. You won’t care then. It’ll be all Chris, Chris, Chris in that strange new world. I’ll be loitering around the place, of course, trotting out my usual three jokes, but you won’t care. I’ll wave at you in the street, or try to catch your eye in the sauna, but you’ll just look blank and turn away. The most I’ll get from you is perhaps a phone call to the police to have me removed from your garden. But I’ll remember, Frank. Oh, I’ll remember.

About Doctor Who Magazine

Contents include:
• Exclusive previews of the next four episodes of the 2017 series of Doctor Who – The Lie of the Land, Empress of Mars, The Eaters of Light, and World Enough and Time. Plus, interviews writers Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Toby Whithouse and Rona Munro.
• Showrunner Steven Moffat answers reader's questions.
• A look into how one of the original Ice Warrior helmets from the1960s has survived to the present day.
• An in-depth interview with Jamie Mathieson, who reveals the secrets behind the writing of episode 5, Oxygen.
• Part Two of the new comic strip adventure featuring the Doctor and Bill: The Soul Garden, by Scott Gray, with art by Martin Geraghty.
• Reviews of the latest episodes, Knock Knock, Oxygen, Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World.
• The Fact of Fiction delves into the 1967 story The Macra Terror.
• Previews, book and audio reviews, news, the Watcher's column, prize-winning competitions and much, much more!